[OE-core] Proposal: recipe feature switches

[Koen Kooi]

Op 1 jul 2011, om 11:26 heeft Frans Meulenbroeks het volgende geschreven:

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> 2011/7/1 Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
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> Op 1 jul 2011, om 10:55 heeft Frans Meulenbroeks het volgende geschreven:
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> > Good idea.
> > Personally I'd like to also bring footprint into the equation. If a feature drags in lots of additional packages, it is interesting to make it configurable.
> > My favourite example: bluez dragging in all kind of rendering stuff (through DEPENDS) even though the hardware functionality might not be there (e.g. you have BT but not audio).
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> Which is a great example, since that doesn't impact footprint at all, it's an alsa *plugin* that will get produced.
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> bluez.inc:DEPENDS = "gstreamer gst-plugins-base dbus glib-2.0"
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> I don't think gstreamer is really needed or desired if you e.g. just want to do some tethering over bluetooth, or in my case, connect to a BT HID, and they do contribute to both the build time and the footprint.

Again, a plugin, so no footprint issues.